Rosamund Pike Quotes

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

When I write my songs, I'm writing about the pain, the joy, and the ridiculousness of being a human.

'Citylights' is for those people who know a lot but don't feel at all. It's time for them to feel, and this film will make those people, who know so much, feel because feeling is the life blood of human race, which is disappearing.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

I like to think I'm multi-faceted. Actually, my favorite roles are roles like in 'Far from Heaven.' Y'know. Soft people. Loving people.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.